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class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />April 6, 1956 – April 12, 1969</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Webster" title="Arnold Webster">Arnold Webster</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_R._Berger" title="Thomas R. Berger">Thomas R. Berger</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Leader of the <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia_New_Democratic_Party" title="British Columbia New Democratic Party">British Columbia<br />Co-operative Commonwealth Federation/New Democratic Party</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />April 6, 1956 – April 12, 1969</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Webster" title="Arnold Webster">Arnold Webster</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_R._Berger" title="Thomas R. Berger">Thomas R. Berger</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/British_Columbia_Legislative_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="British Columbia Legislative Assembly">British Columbia Legislative Assembly</a></span><br />for <a href="/wiki/Cowichan-Malahat" title="Cowichan-Malahat">Cowichan-Malahat</a><br /><small><a href="/wiki/Cowichan-Newcastle" title="Cowichan-Newcastle">Cowichan-Newcastle</a> (1952-1966)</small></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />June 12, 1952 – October 5, 1975</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Mowatt_Whisker" title="Andrew Mowatt Whisker">Andrew Mowatt Whisker</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Wallace_(politician)" title="Barbara Wallace (politician)">Barbara Wallace</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1913-12-01</span>)</span>December 1, 1913<br /><a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 21, 1981<span style="display:none">(1981-07-21)</span> (aged 67)<br /><a href="/wiki/Victoria,_British_Columbia" title="Victoria, British Columbia">Victoria, British Columbia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cause of death</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lung_Cancer" class="mw-redirect" title="Lung Cancer">Lung Cancer</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/British_Columbia_New_Democratic_Party" title="British Columbia New Democratic Party">British Columbia New Democratic Party</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Carpenter/Trade Unionist</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Robert Martin Strachan</b> (December 1, 1913 – July 21, 1981) was a trade unionist and politician. He was the longest serving <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(British_Columbia)" title="Leader of the Opposition (British Columbia)">Leader of the Opposition</a> in <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia">British Columbia</a> history.<sup id="cite_ref-cp_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cp-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Strachan was a carpenter by trade. He immigrated to Canada after quitting a 10-shilling-a-week job as messenger boy in Glasgow to go to Nova Scotia on a $10-a-week farm labour scheme. He moved west, in 1931, to the northern B.C. copper-smelting town of Anyox and then to Powell River, where he became a carpenter and an active unionist eventually becoming British Columbia head of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Brotherhood_of_Carpenters_and_Joiners_of_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (page does not exist)">Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cp_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cp-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1952, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia_Legislative_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="British Columbia Legislative Assembly">British Columbia Legislative Assembly</a> as an <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Legislative_Assembly" title="Member of the Legislative Assembly">MLA</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialist</a> <a href="/wiki/Co-operative_Commonwealth_Federation" title="Co-operative Commonwealth Federation">Co-operative Commonwealth Federation</a>. In 1956, he was elected CCF leader thus becoming Leader of the Opposition to the <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia_Social_Credit_Party" title="British Columbia Social Credit Party">Social Credit</a> government of <a href="/wiki/W.A.C._Bennett" class="mw-redirect" title="W.A.C. Bennett">W.A.C. Bennett</a>. Strachan's CCF ran in the <a href="/wiki/1960_British_Columbia_general_election" title="1960 British Columbia general election">1960 general election</a> on the platform of <a href="/wiki/Nationalization" title="Nationalization">nationalizing</a> the province's private <a href="/wiki/Hydro-electricity" class="mw-redirect" title="Hydro-electricity">hydro-electric</a> company, B.C. Electric. Bennett denounced the idea during the election campaign but, in 1961, turned around and announced plans to do exactly that in order to create <a href="/wiki/BC_Hydro" title="BC Hydro">BC Hydro</a> leading Strachan to denounce the Social Credit government as hypocrites.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He remained leader after the party transformed into the <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia_New_Democratic_Party" title="British Columbia New Democratic Party">British Columbia New Democratic Party</a> in 1961. He defeated a <a href="/wiki/British_Columbia_New_Democratic_Party_leadership_conventions" class="mw-redirect" title="British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership conventions">leadership challenge</a> by "Young Turk" <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Berger_(Canadian_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Berger (Canadian politician)">Thomas Berger</a> in 1967, but sensing a mood for change he stepped down in 1969.<sup id="cite_ref-cp_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cp-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-berger_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-berger-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Strachan remained in the legislature, however, and was appointed Highways Minister when the NDP formed government for the first time as a result of the <a href="/wiki/1972_British_Columbia_general_election" title="1972 British Columbia general election">1972 general election</a>. He was appointed to the new position of Minister of Commercial Transport and Communications in 1973 (seven days after his appointment to this new portfolio, it was renamed Ministry of Transport and Communications). Strachan oversaw the implementation of the NDP's promise to institute public <a href="/wiki/Automobile_insurance" class="mw-redirect" title="Automobile insurance">automobile insurance</a> and was responsible for the creation of the government-owned <a href="/wiki/Insurance_Corporation_of_British_Columbia" title="Insurance Corporation of British Columbia">Insurance Corporation of British Columbia</a>. Strachan left politics in 1975 when he was appointed the province's <a href="/wiki/Agent_general" class="mw-redirect" title="Agent general">agent general</a> to the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> by <a href="/wiki/Premier_of_British_Columbia" title="Premier of British Columbia">Premier</a> <a href="/wiki/Dave_Barrett" title="Dave Barrett">Dave Barrett</a>. He served in the position for almost two years.<sup id="cite_ref-cp_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cp-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He died of <a href="/wiki/Lung_cancer" title="Lung cancer">lung cancer</a> in 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-cp_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cp-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Strachan_(politician)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-cp-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-cp_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cp_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cp_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cp_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-cp_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Canadian Press, "Robert Strachan Led CCF-NDP in opposition for 13 years in B.C. House", <i>Globe and Mail</i>, July 22, 1981</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Palmer, Vaughn, "Robert Bonner was the bright young Mr. Fixit for W.A.C. Bennett", <i>Vancouver Sun</i>, August 17, 2005</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mitchell, David J., "The power of politics A Bennett takeover to change the Socreds", <i>Globe and Mail</i>, October 15, 1983</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-berger-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-berger_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Johnson, William, "Two heroic men in a conflict", <i>Globe and Mail</i>, July 6, 1983</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Webster" title="Arnold Webster">Arnold Webster</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a 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class="new" title="1961 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election (page does not exist)">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1967_British_Columbia_New_Democratic_Party_leadership_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1967 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election (page does not exist)">1967</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1969_British_Columbia_New_Democratic_Party_leadership_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1969 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election (page does not exist)">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1970_British_Columbia_New_Democratic_Party_leadership_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1970 British Columbia New Democratic Party leadership election (page does not exist)">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=1984_British_Columbia_New_Democratic_Party_leadership_election&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="1984 British Columbia New 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